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• Good music always defeats bad luck.

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• Well, I think everything I’ve ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

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• This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I’m getting some credit for what I’ve done. Which is gratifying, but it’s kind of a little late.

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• These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

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• There was a writer in the ’20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn’t tell you what it was.

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• Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn’t a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

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• The story was such that I couldn’t make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn’t want to. So, it isn’t the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I’m pleased with it anyway.

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• Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

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• So I’ll write it, and then I’ll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can’t use it in the story and it doesn’t fit. So I just throw it away. I’ve done that countless times.

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• Right now I’m so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don’t know what I’d do with it. I don’t travel anymore. I don’t need anything, don’t want anything. I’d give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

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• It seems to limit you; when you’re working in an office, you’re a creature in a small cell under somebody’s supervision and surveillance.

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• In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

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• I’d never been published when I was young.

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• I worked for half a cent a word. I’m not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

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• I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

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• I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

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• I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

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• I never worked in an office in my life.

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• I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

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• I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

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Birth:	28th August, 1916
Death:	26th May, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

John Holbrook "Jack" Vance was born in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. He won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984. He wrote several novels include: Cugel's Saga, Emphyrio, Big Planet, The Languages of Pao, The Blue World, To Live Forever, Star King, The Gray Prince, The Killing Machine, Alastor Cluster, City of the Chasch, The Dirdir, The Book of Dreams, The Pnume, Maske: Thaery, The Five Gold Bands, Araminta Station, The Anome, The Palace of Love, Trullion, Space Opera, The Face, Servants of the Wankh, Wyst, Throy, Slaves of the Klau, Ecce and Old Earth, Madouc(World Fantasy Award), and Marune. He wrote other books include: The Dying Earth(Fantasy short story collection), The Eyes of the Overworld, The Dragon Masters(Hugo Award for Best  novella), The Last Castle(Hugo Award for Best Novelette, Nebula Award for Best Novella), Tales of the Dying Earth(short story), Rhialto the Marvellous(collection of one essay and three fantasy stories), The Moon Moth(short story), The Houses of Iszm(novella), Son of the Tree(novella), Eight Fantasms and Magics(collection of short stories), and Telek(novella).

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